From Software has revealed additional details concerning the hub area in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Like the Dark Souls games and Bloodborne, Sekiro features an enclosed area, titled the Dilapidated Temple, that`s safe from enemies where you can buy items and upgrade your abilities.According to Game Informer, the Dilapidated Temple shares a lot of elements with the hubs seen in past Soulsborne games, including the area`s expansion as you recruit other characters. `If you`re familiar with the Souls games, you know how you can find NPCs in the world,` From Software marketing and communications manager Yasuhiro Kitao said. `Maybe they`re vendors, maybe they do something with you, maybe they head back to the hub, where you can speak to them and progress their quests.`Like other Soulsborne games, you`ll be able to fast travel to Sekiro`s hub too. You can either rest at the bonfire-like sculptor`s idols or use items that immediately send you to the temple if an idol isn`t nearby. While in the Dilapidated Temple, you`ll have the opportunity to increase the number of healing items you can carry at a time as well.The Dilapidated Temple does differ in a few ways from recent Soulsborne hubs though. For one, there`s a character in the Dilapidated Temple, called The Immortal Soldier, who teaches you combat moves and how to use items, and willingly offers himself as a test dummy for you to practice different attacks. Also, unlike Dark Souls III and Bloodborne`s hub areas--both of which you must teleport from to explore the world--Sekiro`s Dilapidated Temple connects to multiple areas. In turn, several of these areas are also interconnected with each other.`We feel like Sekiro`s probably on the higher end of the spectrum in terms of the freedom the player has to explore the world if we`re to compare it to our previous games,` From Software director Hidetaka Miyazaki said. `Particularly from the mid-game onward, the world really opens up, and you have a great deal of choice and ...
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